Caring for you like you cared for me.
Making me weak when your weakness I see.
I must be strong I tell myself, If not for you
for everyone else.

I hold you close when pain racks your body.
The firm flesh of my youth has now lost it's
firmness. Your smile is almost toothless but
to me you look the best.
My arms enfold you but they cannot console
you, your deepest pain is unreachable by
me.

For the care that you gave to me and my siblings
and there is no one there caring for you but me.
You long for your childrens unified affection, but
the others are lost seeking direction.

I reach for your withered hand when the doctors
words you don't understand. I am teaching my
teacher, and mothering my mother. Missing my
sister and missing my brother. But , hold on to
you I must, for in God I do trust. I do what I do
not because of some great reward.
No will can compensate me monetarily for all that
you gave.

My feet hurt, my back aches, to many nights have
been spent wide awake. My heart how it breaks
but not for my sake. But, for mother's everywher
who long for their childrens care.
I do what I do not because of some great reward.
I do what I do you see, because you did it for me.

Happy Birthday Sister CocoButterSkyn! Thank you for the love, all the years! Please tell Sister Epiphany I said hello and that I miss and think of her often! I hope you both are doing well! Much Much Love and Peace!